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viiiuiius republican, Gorpel Wyth *, -ftl bt inj c<;[iv nceti that his intent ors wete upririhr, -\- i though in fume things he ft. la- • go'Cil w rh ihemfrlves. Youi last and bt-ft rewud will b? happiness af er death. In th s world, our portion of happinef is buts nail. The belt nil n art o r tea affiidted i.kr the worlt— They have to weep withagonizetl hearts for rhe Sols of those they love moft deaily, as we do now * ani fomttitoes, as was the case of our unoitJ..ai.e friend, they fc; 1 the ftrokc of death embitter* ed by the sharp and ver.einous ltmg of inprati ude. But they have thfir consolation. Thev re pole their hopes in the bosom of their God, and look to the place he has prepared as their permanent abode. Such wa'i the comf ft which lrr.cothed the Let! of death to <ur and parted friend. He alwis believed in a fum* e anil I c.'ei (fate, whit h alottr can afford to goi cl men their just re iribntion ; nnd 1 trull is himfclf ar ih s moment in that happier Wi rid, whcie “ the wn. ked ce. fe front tr uiblittg and the weary an at rell.” if his bleiled spirit, ex .lied above the cares and paint of mortality, couid now tenoet us any services, i would invoke it, and call upon him to inftift into our hearts, 3t lead a portion of his virtues. But to him it would not be proper for us to nuke our application. 1 o the Almighty creator only, to that God who made him all that he was, our request fliould be di reded. And that he may, in hit mercy teach us properly to esti mate, and draw the molt uftfui jnllrntt on from the great exam ple which is n w set before us, is my molt and icrveM piaycr. From the Folio/. J Intelligencer. UNIVERSAL BLOCK.’ DES. Tin- vc >vet nment ot Guat Britain <’<*et nm tpptar fuffi :ently to conlider the ua tTire and conb qutuccs of the mcafure of universal blockade, wl iclt they hav# laid to have adopted. The mcatuic is in fad irn; roperly styled a blockade. It in a forcible lufpehliou of all the trade of the continent of Euiope Switzerland enveloped in Europe, and the United State# of Ann rica to ad 11 rent auel rc niote quarter of the glouc, are incidcn tally lul j deel to mfu| portable and lili ginmate interruptions of the sales of their agricullutal production#, and inanu faduies, anil to the nioft injurous ob* ftrudion ol'theit lup plies. We can have flo vmt for the tropical productions which we import. Switzerland,incapa ble of p.uticipatiiig in the operations o! Fiance and Pnflia in Ihutting the Euro pean sea ports, and America having no participation in them, are treated at France and Pruflia. The chapter of justice i* torn out cf the maiiuiqe code. Tae law of nations i# mutilated in oiu prrt and mtripolaied in another. Ame rica prevented fiom fuppiying the old continent through England or by c. red voyages, can ra ie no moti. s from do- Ir.ctlic or fine pi goods to pay lor Eu ropean merchandize. She cannot raise dune# or tevc ue thereon. I his is a condition *h h the United S'ltrs rre unable to endure. It u- quite uni cic(T._ ry to cc • ti.iCi, v.licthc’ e mail be willing orn 1 c nttut to ci'ture luch a ttate oi things, for it is not in our power to eni it \V e mufl ult our accutt n.cd tned ur* (tit mrllic ant. ( c.ieigu goods) to pui hale or procure fuppliis. 11 wt cannot fell cur dtmeilic and foreign gocJs abroad, we muit wot It then, up and coulume tlunr at home. Beer, cider, and fruit and grain fpiiits, made at home, mud toon exclude foreign beer aud ruin.— Europe takes i o IhcepN wool from us, wherefore wo mull extend prohibitions ot woolen goods at the next lellioii of Congrei*, that Europe and America may be forced to mautadure the raw ma j teriais w produce for lilt and exportau j on. Two mitt ens oj ftmaUt anJ monj j chilJun in the United Slates, who do little now but needle woik or play, mud be taught to card, (pin by machines, knit, weave, dye, print cloths, engrave,, gilt, paint, aud perform other operations \ in mdfcutadure*. If the manufacturing nations uuwifcly and unkiudly destroy the export trade of our produce w e muit mar, uf ..dure it. The current of Britilh fuirply will be turneu aude, btcaufe we cannot loot* the lupply of our crops, aud ; buy of them any longer to the amount t ot Unity millions of dollars per annum It is the plain intend ot Gnat Britain to facilitate the tales of tr ps and foreign gooOs, the pivcccd* ol which enab cs us tw buv iheir mar.uffcdtures. li mllcad of facilitating, fhc detin y the nett proceeds of lairs by illegitimate blockades, it wil toicrus like ihe new Kobiulon Cruloe, lo work up our erops tor ourleivcs. As there ;s nut a IcCWon in the i, w of . r.ati” on# to juttify this dcftrudiou of neutral j trice# not contraband, lo it it tuauitcli) 1 a that fli’_ coiver.s the* .trident into tbs eeptr.- of. naval debt ‘inn. \V:ie, auJ ‘•'■arned, and upright judge*, cannot con -o;ina t.S : property of the innocent infrac tor* of ilk)>itimate blockades Corf i |ence, in an enlightened and independent judiciary department, i* not to be moul ded by “ orders” of the executive j.'o i vernment. “ Refcntmeot*’ against Pa ilia cannot there warrant lawless injufticr to the United States of America. lucre is no authority in the British navy to make commercial laws for neutral ftatec. Britain has no right to make “orders of king St council” to bind our commerce in all cases whatsoever. But lately we hare heard the plea of nectfiity to juflify the impressment of our seamen ; and now it u used to juflify the prollration of our agriculture, and the deftrudion of our trade in innocent goods—goods notcoir traband of war. It is easy to perceive the fame difpo&tioo in the Britilh con vention of March, 1793. with the le e government of Ruflia, a* avowed to Mr. T. Pinckney, by lord Grenville, The papers contained in Mr, JtfFcrfou’s celebrated communications of 1793 and 4, with the British and French go vernments. There wa* then no neces ti;y. The fame dilpofition appears in the proclamation of admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, of//pril H, 1797, before Ca diz, in which he declared that it was loan i “ right that Spain Ihouk) no long er have any trade !” Here is not even a . ica or appearance of nectfiity, yet ad rmral Nelson allowed himfclf so to use his p wer and commifTion, ;.s to set up a blocks eat the exptnee of the iudefeafi hit rights of our neutral agriculture and ; commerce. The order of the Britilh go vernment of Nov. 6, 1793> was rquaily unvvatrantable and equally unfounded in neceiTuy. Itauthoriled the carrying in of all American vcffcls, having on hoard the produce of the French colonies We were in our colonial days, and have been fmee in the course and practice of tdc le gitimate importations of hundrtds of J cargoes of molalfes from tfie French co lonies.—The naval despotism of Great Britain, in November, 1793, made t’nefe a cattle of seizure—Surely without tie ctfTi’y. England lias alloweu a mere corporation of merchants to ulttrp the dominions of all the native princes of India, so as to txcludr us and all other maritime nations from the whole pemn (ula as if it were a proper eifatc of their EnghHi trading company. And now, to crown the whole, they have determin ed that we ffi ill not buy or fell with the myriads that inhabit Europe !—Thai m'gi ■; Europe (hall no longer have any tiaje !-—That we mull carry on trauc with tneir European dominions alone ! 7hal all this it requilite to the manifts |un ion of “ the resentment” of the Bn ofii government at the recent coudutt of Fiullii!—'The king of Great Britain vas coerced into a neutrality, in his llan ovarian charadter, by the power of Fiance- Ihulta adled the fame neutral part; Now Pruflki got* a fltp further, under equal circuir.flanceß of coercion. All the relations and connections of ihe Brnifh royal family on ihe European continent, (as well by blood as b) mar riage) ad ihe fame part. Vet, neutial, frienuly America is no long.r to he al lowed, by the Bntifh navy, lo fell her crops to these very relations and then fubje.ta. This is undeniably a meafut. of the mo ft exet Hive nature. Mr. Fox far, very far, exceeds Lord Grenville and Mr. I'itt- To the neutral world, lie oui-herods Herod. VVe recently iup poled, that, though a faithful Union, he was nil: enough of the citizen of the world to love j ilhce aud right in his in teroourfc with the amicable, the right an. the jult. Can it be supposed, that the American people wiil submit to laws of trade, un pmcedcutCd and arbitrary, framed by the ixecultve government ot that country, v.bul'e. legislative fiipremScy, with picas . : “ nccouiiy” and virtual representative charsder, lliey fuccefsfuily eienied in jrm ? Will fix organized millions in IHO6, submit to worle than what two little hi. organized millions refufed to bear rweeniy years ago ? Is America to bear aliedgtu Bin fli necessities. and her own rtal neceflities also ? Arc icaion and jus lice ana hxtd principle to be expunged from lire maritime code, aud the will of a (ingle prince to be the law of nemrals tin the ocean : Is this the tlyle and man ner in which Britain protects the liberties of the world ? Is it for such purposes rhat (he maintains it to be neciifary, that the should pofTcfs the fupeiiority at lei— the sovereignty ot the ocean ? The real “ neccfUties” of Britain are lat this time completely mitunderitood, las we believe,and we have an equal right j to think, when the mealurts altedged to be “ uect ffary,” affeit us. The difeus lion of this point nray be a fubjed ot fu ture consideration. In the mean time it . may be well temperately and firmly, to joblerve, that to interfere with the legiti. | male and advantageous tales of the crops and merchandifc of the greatell neutral and friendly consumer of Briulh tnanu -1 tadures, at a moment too when the rctl ;ot the civilifed world throws them oa ihe hands of the Bntifh manufadurers, ; appears to us to be as unwise, as it is unlawful, unexampled, and insupportable. Their real nee limes demand that they diligently incrcafe our ability and our means and our difpolitions to purchale their reduudant and rejeded manutae turt#, by enabling us to tell our crops aud toreigu merchandise at increased pri ccs. Inlicad ot this, they propole au tl hg'.timaie and offenlive obtlrndion of our markets, to the proportionate des truction of our means ot purchufe, for cing u> by a BcceUity, real an. imperious, *0 manufacture those foeignand domes tic raw materials, wmeh muit otht- vvi c peril'll in our hands. nuy 3S ROME, March 20. The College of Cardinal, has already tad two extraordinary meetings. 1 here is a great talk here of removing the Ho ly See to another quarter, and of the coronation of an Emperor in our metro polis, A Papal Courier has been dis patched to Paris. From the Banis of tie Alain, /Iprif 13, According to a letter from Bremen, the Prullian troops have occupied all the pofkiuns, on the Wcfer and Elbe, by which they arc enabled to prevent the entrance of Engliffi Blips into the mouth of those rivers. ALBANIA, March 30. The commander of the Ruffian squad ron at Cattaro, has ifTued the following order refpedring the blockade of the ports in the Adriatic fra To accom plifii the just objedt of maintaining a good understanding with the neutral powers, and at the fame time to perfe vtre in the import ant plan of cutting off the enemy from al luppliea which he might receive through the means of neu trals, the commander of the (quadron of his imperial majeftj of all the Ruffians hereby notifies and declares - 1. That all the coafti and harbors, both on the right and the left of the A dnatic Gulph belonging io the French, or to neutral dates, and pol Lil.-d by the French, are, from this day, fltiekly blockaded by the said squadron. 2. That no veffe! belonging to the laid powers fii ill atu mat to convey war like Ibvree, proviiions, or other fuppiies, to any of the blockaded places, under the penalty of confifcation of at.d eargo. , 3. That whereas this notification fufliciently teilifics the tefpedl which my court entertains fer the neutral ftate3, I flatter myfelf that sll the evils will be averted which would result to them from acting in oppoUtiou to the order uow given. Henry Bailey, Commander of thefyu tdron of his fm pcial Majejly 0) all the Rujjians. On board the Asia (hip of the line, at anchor in the Cinal of tl?e Buccadi March 15, iSoS. SWEDEN and PRUSSIA. Du Ideation of thi Swedi/h commander • LusEniurg, April 20. In conlequcncc of the reiterated ru mours that * s the fruflian troops are ma xing preparation! to pass the Elbe, the Swolilh commtndant count Guflavus Lowenbeirn, addrcfTed the following to the P. ufli n commandant at Lunenburg ; “ Ts Al Le Commandant of the Put/- fun t. oops at Lunenburg. “ As several reports have reached me, tho’ unofficial, r.(peering the prtparati l oils of the Pruffijn troops for palling o. vtr to the right lank of the Elbe, I feel royfelf calhd upon, in conformity to the orders l have t cat veil from my sovereign with the repetition ot mine, of the ift of February, to dtclare to iae commandant of the Prussian treops, that all the Hano verian territory uaon the right bank of the Elbe, is placel under the protection of Sweden, as the property of his majes ty’s augult al.y, the kit*;; of Great Bri tain and Ireland, ra bis quality as ele&or o’ Hanover—andthat, under this view, the counties abov: mentioned are occupi ed by tf.e troops<f the kiug of Sweden unocr my coimnaid ; and that I have orders to defend those countries, in case >t ary violation o their limits by foreign troops, and of when I have given proper notice to my adviuced polls, a3 any such vioiat on wi'l be t-cate- as an attack up on the itates of hit .wed sh majesty. “ Count Gr/luvus Lcwenheim .” “ Head Qiurters, Ratzburg, April 13, 1S06” VIENNA, yfpril 9 . It is ass.. ted t hat ys.tti.r lay there was lined between toe courts of Vienna and I lance, a convention, in virtue of which the tornu r concedes to the latter, a free V ffago for its troops by La Ponteba and Prietic, lor lltria aad Venetian Dalmatia; tiie number oi these troops are varioully dated; fome carrying it as high as 45,000 others to only 30,000. This lalt point is a matter of indifference ; the passage benig once curried, there proba bly would not be any d.ffieulty as to the number. Although hi the manner from which this demand was made no one doubted of its success, the new treaty of the conclusion has neverthelcfs caused a great fenfatiou among the public, & the Rulln forctaw this con* ce&Hion, and in conftquence, we learn by private letters received yetlerday from Trieste, that the commander in chief of the Ruffian Sect in the adriatic, has given directions to all the divisions under his orders, to blockade not only that port, but also those on the two coarts of that La, and to examine ftridly every ship that enters or comes out. To this order is annexed an exaft lift of every l’pecics of commerce which is reckoned proviiion, or ammunition of war, and a copy of these inftrudtions is on board the afia, the admiral’s ihip. Ragufa itlclf is lituated among the ports which will be lubjtfted to thele vilits so ditlrdTing to a great part of Ita ly, and particularly to the hereditary itates. * It (hould seem as if the renewal of war upon the continent, was almoli im pofUblc to be avoided. It 1; clear, not 1 viihilaudii.g the belief which F i-i.-a 4| irofefT.s to entertain, that Auitrui wi! •auTe Csftle Nuovo, ani tht tnouihs o 1 the Cattaro to be delivered op to him. -.hat he fufpcAs the surrender of then to Ruflia to have been the eff.ct of con uivance between the two courts. It ii said that the French troops are approach ing the Inn, and that a camp is to be formed near Bran nan. In the event of a renewal of the war on the continent, the theatre of hdftilities will be much larger than it was during the lall short contcif. It will extend from the north of Germany to Dalmatia —it may even extend to the Turkjflt pro vinces, and the fate of chri&ian Europe may be decided upon the territories of the followers of Mahomet. SCHIFDAM, April 55. A. letter from Semlin, dated March 30, fayß “ Since the defeat of Pafwan Oglu, the Servians have withdrawn the corpa of obfervatiou which they had pofled in the environs of Widdin. This corps, which is very numerous, has re puffed the Timock, and taken a petition along the rivages of that river. “ The insurgents have appeared be fore Belgrade with new forces. That place continues in the greatest difbefs. Many houses there have been demolish ed ; the woods have been burnt, and the (tones exchanged with the Aultriansfor provisions. Several public edifices foch as the Greek Church, the episcopal resi dence, the cavern ot the jatiifiaries, and even thebaflions, have not been spared, Ihe number of the inhabitants is one half diminifhtd ; fame have taken Sight, others have died of wrctchcdnels or in battle. 1 here is a report current that Palwan-Oglu has fallen into the hands of the Servians, after his defeat, he at-, tempted to join the Ottoman troops, when he fell in with the’ troop of Bul garians who cat oft his paffige ; the Servians who were in pursuit of him, having come up, he was (urounded on all tides. The wi.ik escort which accom panied him, were cut in pieces, and the llurdy chieftain made prisoner. M. de 1 alleyrand, nephe w of the French miniller for foreign affairs, arriv ed at Augfhu'gon the 15r.11 inll. from Vi enna, with the news that the Ruffians bad evacuated Cattaro arid Ragufa, and that the difficulties which had arisen with the house of Austria on this fubjeft, had been adjusted. He carried orders for marshal Ney, at Mcmmingen, to proceed for Fiance with the corps d’Avmee under his command. Marshal Soult at Paflau, has received a similar order. The form er commenced his march on the fame day for France, by way of Stralburg. a German paper contains the fallow ing very important article, dated Munich April 13 —“ We have received very a greeable difpatchea from Petersburg. The emperor Alexandria has recognized the royal dignity in the houses of Bava ria and Wurtemburg, and is difpcfed to treat with France for peace, under the mediation of Pauffia. In cohfequence of this, the Bavarian army is about to be put on the peace eftablifiiment, and the departure of their majeflies for Milan and Parts will take place immediately. The fame Journal mentions, that the king of Sweden, in quitting Ratzcburg, declared to the Regency of that city, that as the dutchy of Lunenburg should be under the proteftion of Swedish troops he would regard an attack on its inde pendence the fame as if direfted againll his own Rates. The French troops which have occu pied the duchy of Cleves, amount to a bout 6,00 men. Several French offi cers and comintffaries have arrived at Ox nabrug. It is laid that this principality, as well as thre other provinces, will be given to an Austrian prince. ‘ It feetns that the kingdom of Italy having been ffiut agair.lt the manufadtures of Switzerland, has occasioned great mi fery among ihe laborers of that country. General Oudinot was about to take poff.fiion of Teufchatel a9 a conquered country, when he received a courier, an nouncing that the king of Prussia had consented to its cession. LONDON, April 29. The Britilh minister at Berlin, has de rnanded and obtained his passports. He was expected at Huffum, before the end of this month on his way to England. Private letters from Dublin, (late, Dwyer, the county of Wicklow rebel chief, and his companions, who were shipped oft for Botany Bay, role upon the crew on the voyage, and carried the vtfLlinto the Brazils. PORTSMOUTH, April zb. This moruing arrived the Donncgal, of 80 guns, captain Puitney Malcelm, one of Sir John Duckworth’s squadron, from Jamaica, from whence (he tailed on the Bth of March, within the Canopus, bo, rear admiral lir Thomas Louis, cap tain Austen; Spencer, 74, hou. captain Stopford ; Jupiter, (pr.z-) 74, captain Gill j L’Alexander, (prize) 74, captain ltnpey ; and the La liraave, (prize) So captain Boyer. The Donncgal and La Braave parted from the other (hips on the 8:h intt. off the Weftcrn Iflauds ; and on the 12th, during a heavy gale o’ wind, the Braave loundered. She ha been much cut up in the iifton ; on th morning of the 12th inil. her main.ma fell overboard, and (he was found to ope much ; all her people were removed t< the Donnegal during that day, and 1 the evening the went down. Sir Joh Duckworth, in the Superb, captan Keats, with the Acafta frigate, captait Dunn, failed f> >val for bn Rt.itij j est Cs ‘ , f-v-.-a f fiye b,t . - ■tii Reps The Canopus, Spcm and the other two priz s, it .wasexped. 1 by the Donnegal, would have reach Sptthead before thefh, as they were he ! tained two days of the gale in attend! .g to La B-aave. General Carmichael, who last all his things in the Braave, is landed from Donnegal. Avon (loop, captain Snell, which arrived last night from Liffin’n, brings an account of fir Sidney Smith having joined lord Coilingwood, and that capt. Digby was appointed .to the Swiltfure, one of the Trafalgar prizes, which may be hourly expelled hoine— The Topaze’ French frigate, was a traid to leave Lisbon, notwithftaoding there were no ships watching her. DF AL. April 30. A large fleet of Swedish mer chantmen are just: arrived in the Downs, from the Westward, an*l are now coming to anchor to wait for pilots to condufl them to the Wore, where hey will re main till an Euglifh nun of war is appoin ed to elcort them to their different places of deftmaci. on. . This attention on the pare of our government 10 the pro tection of the Swediih commerce is highly meritorious, at the fame time that it shews the good un derftanding fubfiiting between the two kingdoms. Three or four fail of large coppered tranlpoits from the ri ver, having ori board the zi re giment of foot, are come into the Downs, where they will re main r.jl joined by the rest of the regiments that are destined on die fame ftrvice and so secret is the place of destination kept, that the officers only fuppefethae they are going ’ on foreign ftrvice. Conjeclur lays, to the Cape of Gced Hope, hue t is, probably mere conjedure. BALTIMORE, June 7. Our readers will perceive, with no imali degree of indignation that ihe Leander is again off the port ot New-York, and pursu ing the fame fy.ftem of conduct which lately excited so mu;h fenfibiiiiy throughout the United States. It must alio have been oblerved from an attciiition to the ftiip news for several days p; ft, tliat a number of Britilh vefftls are guilty of violations of right andjuftice, not ftfs flagrant and unprincipled. “ As it was at the.beginning,’’ of our conrroverly with Britain, “lb it is now,” honor and hu manity appears to have defer ted the Couit of St. Jams, and pow er conftitute* right among its .ninifters. Are \vc to “ sweat and groan” under her imposi tions ? Is there no help for us ? Are our viffels to be plunder our people murdered,and fta-.nea villa noufly to be carried awav, fr art all they hold dear with impunity? T 1 e subsequent letter from Benj min Franklin, and Siiaa D an, to lord Stormont, the En ;l sh ambuffador at Pans, at the com nencemencofthe revolution pourtrays in strong language, how things were at that time, and should be handed down to posterity as a lading evidence cf Bm.fh humanity and British ho nor. PARIS, April 2, 1777, “ My Lord—We did our selves the honor of wtAing fome time ago to your Lordship on the fubjectof exchanging pnTon ers. You did not condescend to give us any answer, and chere ■ore we expedt none to this. We however, taice the liberty of lea fing you copies of certain depo iitions, which we ihall tranfmic to Congress, whereby it will be known to your court, that the United States are not acquaint v] with the barbarous treatment .heir people receive, when they lave the misfortune ,of being our prifoneis here in Europe - t ind that if your conduit towards .is is not altered, it is not unhke y that severe reprisals may be hough ur.juftifiable from the r.e efticy of putting lome check o furh abominable praitices. “ For the fake of humanity, t is to be wi Died that men vould endeavour to alleviate, /*